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Title Inventing Luxembourg [electronic resource] : representations of the past, space and language from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / by Pit Peporte ... [et al.].

Imprint Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xii, 383 p. : ill.
Series National cultivation of culture ; v. 1
National cultivation of culture ; v. 1.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pt. 1. Narrating the past -- Introduction. Making sense, producing meaning : time, memory and historical narratives -- Ch. 1. The master narrative of Luxembourg's history -- Ch. 2. The dissemination, reception and public use of the national master narrative -- Ch. 3. Different narratives? -- Pt. 2. Drawing the boundaries -- Introduction. From border patrol to border patrol stations? -- Ch. 4. The 'centripetal' discursive strategy : nationalising the territory -- Ch. 5. The 'centrifugal' discursive strategy : de/renationalising the territory -- Pt. 3. Constructing the language -- Ch. 6. 'Our German' (1820-1918) -- Ch. 7. Making Luxembourgish a language.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Nationalism -- Luxembourg.
Luxembourgish language.
Language policy -- Luxembourg.
Sociolinguistics -- Luxembourg.
Luxembourg -- Historiography.
Luxembourg -- Boundaries.
Luxembourg -- Languages.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Peporte, Pit.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9789004181762 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004181768 (hardback : alk. paper)

 
    
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